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HttpLogin.vbs

I am trying to login to a website using a username and password, for example our Orion web site. Denny recommended that I use the example HttpLogin.vbs script, as this feature is not built into APM at this time, but is scheduled to be added in the future.

Anyway I have changed the variables in top of the script, and purposesly input the incorrect username and password. This application and Windows Script Monitor inside the application always shows as UP, even though the username/password are wrong!

str_url="">http://10.10.254.3"
str_find = ""
str_user = "TEST"
str_pwd = "WRONG"

Anyone use this script before? does it work for you?

Thanks.

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mdiotte

I just used the script to monitor an Orion installation using the following settings where my Username is the default "Admin" with no password. I noticed you were lookng for the word top which happens to be a word that appears in the error message returned when an invalid username/password is passed via this script to Orion.

I used the following params which appear to work:

str_url="http://localhost/Orion/Login.aspx"
str_find = "Network Summary Home"
str_user = "admin"
str_pwd = ""

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ShamChauthani

Can you try changing the str_find variable to a string that should be present on the page that is displayed after successful login. The script uses this variable to search the page that is returned after the login process. If it finds the match it assumes that there was a successful login. Otherwise it reports failure.

videotech

OK, I have tried this and when I enter a string that it expects to find after a successful login, it shows as up, and when a enter a unique string, that is not on the page after the login it fails. BUT it doesn't seem to take into account the username and password, when I enter the wrong username and password, with the correct string it still works!

Any ideas?

ShamChauthani

Does this site happen to have cached credentials (option to remember password) in this case we have seen that if the browser automatically logs the user into the site then we assume that login was successful.

Another way to verify this is to run the script from command line on the APM machine with the -debug flag on the command line. This will allow you to see the login process that the script performs as the browser windows will be displayed.

videotech

Do you mean on the browser, so the IIS solarwinds site in reference to the remebering of the password?

Also how do you run the HttpLogin.vbs file from the command line?

Thanks.